The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1887-02-09


your giving yourself away, besides leav-
ing your collective baseness with grain
or two of charity. Stop, however, If
honest and we'll. meaning, and remember,
as stimulant to careful discrimination
in these things, that your own superficial
tiles may be constantly and cruelty mis-
judged. Step, before judging man
solely by his errors or misfortunes. The
former may have been Enthusiastically
unavoidable. as the latter may have been
undeserved.'
To be punctual at all times In business
matters, employment, society engage
ments, is habit to be commended, If not
a virtue. We overheard laboring man,
one day last week, lamenting the fact that
he had been few moments late that
morning to his daily work. Inquiry pro-
duced the facts, that 1t was first time in
eight years that he had been late, al
though he lived about one mile half
from his place Of business. He never lost
day when there was work, unless
through sickness aud that was seldom, for
you scarcely find healthier man than
Mr.. Samuel Raisner, an employee of the
Lambertville Rubber Company, and who
resides near Rabbit Run, Bucks county.
1t very often happens In military mat
tiers that those not we'll informed will
think there are great Inconsistencies in
the mode and manner of giving COM
mands. A short time ago, movement
was made by regimental commander,
which required the guide to be on the
left, seeing one of the guides on the right
of company, he said to the one 10 the
wrong position, 1.-THE guide is not right
he immediately changed his position and
the other guides also changed from left to
right. Again he said, 1.-THE guides are
not right; to be right they must be on the
left" 1t was hard to understand how the
left guide could be right when the right
guide should be left. If the left guide
was right and not right, how in the world
could the right guide be left and still be
right; or, If the guides on the left were
right, why should the right guide have%o
change to the left to make him right,
when he was right guide at first 1t is
needless to say it all came out right, al
though there were some who might have
been left in understanding the tactics.
Because men sometimes go into con-
fectionery stores to buy peppermint drops
or figs, it is not always an indication that
they have been drinking. There may be
other sweets inside that another is trying
to monopolize. There are more ways
than one Of finding ont now many bushels
of wheat there is in bin twenty. one feet
long, fourteen feet eide and seven feet
high.
Cleanliness 10 the army was of great
importance, but there is such a thing as
wanting to keep too clean. Comrade
Comet, of Post 4s, tells of man who
was in bis regiment, who at the battle Of
Fredericksburg, had just became the pos
SCISSOR of new pair of boots. While
every one WHO could do SO was seeking
shelter behind the banks of the railroad,
to protect them from the shower of shot
and shell, this man paraded up and down
the track. Upon being demonstrated with
as to bis danger, he replied, "Yon fellows
may lay there in the mud II you want to,
but I'm not going to get my boots dirty
right away" and stayed up there and
came out without scratch. lie was
little deaf and when some one shouted,
Don't you here the balls whistling past
you % be replied Eyes, hear one once
in while, /" meaning the shells, the bull
let's he did not hear. Since then he has
applied for pension, and the conversa-
ton between the examiner and himself,
was truly ridiculous, at every question
the hand would invariably go to the ear
and Hay would be the first answer.
The examination brought out the facts
that he had been wounded twice, once by
the kick Of a mule and the second by
shovel in the hands Of an augered COM
rade. A man who will stand up in front
of an enemy and run the risk of his life
in order to keep clean, ought to have pen
sion anyhow, just for the example of
cleanliness.
Have you got book ?" was a ques-
ton propounded to gentleman who en-
tered one of our stores on Saturday even
ing. "Got book, why, what do you
mean?' asked the astonished visitor.
"Well thought you was Grand Army
man and had book for me to take
another chance. II seems to me that the
only customers have had for several
days past, have been men with books for
chances. II the boys don't meet with
success It won't be on account of not
working, and they are-ably supported by
the ladies who also are doing all they can
to make the Bazaar success. Well they
are deserving of patronage.
In olden times It used to be fashionable
to send valentines Of your own make and
design, and the sweet and tender words
which accompanied them were heart melt
ing at any rate.
nyon love me as love you.
No knife can cut our love In two.
What stronger proof Of man or woman's
deep affection. Then there was
The rose Is red the yioIets blue.
Sugar Is sweet and so are you.
When you received such declarations you
wanted to break off piece and taste
yourself, to see Il il could DO really posi-
bic. The following is only rs-produc-
ton Of the above:
50 sure as the grass grows round the stump,
80 snfe you are my sugar lump;
And what a lump fellow would get
sometimes. but u would never sweeten
coffee or rice buildings. Some Of the val
entines OF today are magnificent, but
they do NOT convey one iota more Of real,
mira a6lrlforafad 1.-Two fho. d;d fl,rYo